Authentic Thai Iced Tea. A delicious, refreshing sweetened milk tea. Highly addictive and great a morning beverage. My version has the option to be dairy-free.
This is one of my favourite ways to make Thai Iced Tea from scratch. Therefore I am sharing my EASY way to make this! That way you can save yourself some money!
Thai Iced Tea originates from Thailand but many South East Asian countries have their own version of it to some degree.
For instance, Hong Kong has it’s HK Style Milk Tea where they use normal tea leaves with evaporated milk and sugar to sweeten it. In addition, Malaysia has their rendition of this drink and if you ever visit, you should watch how they pour the drink from each metal cup to cool it down and to make it frothy!
If you reside outside of Asia, Thai restaurants or South East Asian restaurants will usually serve this drink anywhere between $2-4 dollars. But now I’m sharing a recipe so that you can make some Thai Iced Tea at home!
Contrary to what you may think, you will only need 4 ingredients to make this and ten minutes of your time! It’s a great alternative to coffee and I would actually recommend drinking this in the morning. It’s definitely not an evening drink or you will be up for hours!
I hope you enjoy this recipe and don’t forget to check out my other recipes below!
What is the flavour of Thai Iced Tea?
Thai Iced Tea tastes like a very steeped black tea and sweetened with the condensed milk. Additionally, it tastes milky thanks to the evaporated milk and served cold over ice. It’s absolutely delicious and almost addictive if you ask me.
Does a Thai iced tea have caffeine?
Yes. If you want to make a decaf version use decaf black tea leaves.
Is Thai Iced Tea vegan?
The authentic version is not. Nevertheless, I do share the following ingredients to make it dairy-free or vegan.
You’ll need condensed coconut milk and evaporated coconut milk by Nature’s Charm.
Where can I purchase these ingredients?
Black Thai Tea Leaves can be purchased online. I will share the kind they use in Thailand to make this special drink. As a substitute, you may use normal black tea leaves.
Condensed milk can be bought at most Asian or Western grocers in the canned aisle.
Evaporated milk can be bought at most Asian or Western grocers in the canned aisle.
To make this Thai iced tea recipe dairy-free or vegan, you will need to swap out the condensed and evaporated milk for condensed and evaporated coconut milk. Both of these products can be bought online as they are tricky to find at the grocer.
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ICED MILITARY LATTE
VEGAN STRAWBERRY MILK
VEGAN ICED TURMERIC LATTE
For this recipe
Moreover, the following Thai iced tea ingredients are required:
- 2 cups water
- 3 tbsp Thai Tea leaves or black tea leaves
- 2 tbsp condensed milk (or condensed coconut milk if vegan or dairy-free)
- Two tbsp evaporated milk (or evaporated coconut milk if vegan or dairy-free)
- 2 cups ice
Required: Small pot, tea strainer, coffee filters
How to make Thai Iced Tea
Firstly, in your tea strainer, line it with a coffee filter. This is important as it prevents the tiny pieces of the tea leaves from escaping into your iced tea.
Secondly fill the lined tea strainer with the tea leaves. Place the strainer into the small pot and fill the pot with 2 cups of water. Bring it a boil.
Thirdly boil your tea until it’s very dark brown, about 5 minutes. The tea needs to be steeped.
In two separate glasses, fill them each with 1 tbsp of condensed milk followed by ice cubes.
Subsquently once your black tea is steeped, pour into the glass.
Finally, pour about 1 tbsp of evaporated milk over each glass and enjoy!
Give it a try!
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Authentic Thai Iced Tea
Equipment
- Small pot, tea strainer, coffee filters
Ingredients
- 2 cups water
- 3 tbsp Thai Tea leaves or black tea leaves
- 2 tbsp condensed milk or condensed coconut milk if vegan or dairy-free
- 2 tbsp evaporated milk or evaporated coconut milk if vegan or dairy-free
- 2 cups ice
Instructions
- In your tea strainer, line it with a coffee filter. This is important as it prevents the tiny pieces of the tea leaves from escaping into your iced tea.
- Fill the lined tea strainer with the tea leaves. Place the strainer into the small pot and fill the pot with 2 cups of water. Bring it a boil.
- Boil your tea until it’s very dark brown, about 5 minutes. The tea needs to be steeped.
- Then in two separate glasses, fill them each with 1 tbsp of condensed milk followed by ice cubes.
- Once your black tea is steeped, pour into the glass.
- Then pour about 1 tbsp of evaporated milk over each glass and enjoy!
How refreshing, Christie!! I’ve never had Thai iced tea but I’ll be looking to pick up some Thai leaves 🙂
Mmmm looks refreshing, Christie! I’ve never had authentic Thai iced tea — usually it’s super bright orange with food colouring, but I love how yours is way more natural!
Love this. Reminds me of south east asia.
This looks so delicious and refreshing! What a great treat for lunch or dinner.